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Important Update on Housing Rights
Excellent blog post by a fellow Active Rain member.  Too good to NOT share.  I think he does a great job illustrating how legislating with good intentions can result in big problems.  Enjoy!
Item: The Senate passed a measure late yesterday evening to ensure that buyers of homes have their rights to "Housing with Dignity." The act's precepts include the right to an home in "compliance" and other minimal, basic housing rights, or to have a renumeration for the purchase of homes not in conformity to the proposed bill, which goes to the House on Friday. 
Entitled "Deserving Everything Updated For A Song" (DUEFAS), the intention of the bill is to reverse owner bias against buyers seeking affordable housing. A groundbreaking piece of legislation, the bill, if signed into law, will mandate that all homes sold the contiguous 48 states, Hawaii and Alaska have granite and stainless steel kitchens, bathrooms of marble, basements that are hermetically sealed from moisture of any kind, floor carpeting devoid of any odor a bloodhound could detect, household appliances that run in molecular silence from at a minimum distance of 5 feet, at least two walk in closets, and "gleaming" hardwood floors. An earlier measure mandating crown ... more

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